Australian comedian Celeste Barber is set to appear in an upcoming episode of ABC’s “Australian Story.”
Confirmed by the national broadcaster this week, the actor will front the 2025 series premiere on Monday, February 3rd in which she will talk “with extraordinary candour about her struggle with ADHD, revealing a never-before-seen vulnerability.”
“Offering an unfiltered insight into her neurodiversity, Celeste recounts how the undiagnosed condition led to her being badly bullied as a teenager, leaving permanent psychological scars,” the statement reads.
Check out the promo below.
“You still question it,” Barber said.
“And then if something in life happens and it brings back that feeling, you’re like, ‘Oh, I knew it, I knew I was shit.’”
The episode will document Barber’s rise from an out of work actor who made parody videos of celebrities and influencers in 2015, into one of Australia’s most-know performers.
It will also feature a string of guests, including her mother, Kath Barber, and even famous supermodel Cindy Crawford who said “if Celeste Barber is parodying you, you’ve made it.”
“Celeste just flips it all on its head and I love that,” Crawford said.
“And I think then it takes the pressure off women to have that perfect Instagram persona all the time.”
The announcement comes ahead of Barber’s upcoming performances at the Darwin Comedy Festival this March, before she heads overseas to take her Backup Dancer live tour to the UK and Europe in April.
Having last appeared in 2024 Australian family film, Runt, Barber will next appear in comedy-drama TV series, Codependent, which she also has written and produced.
The show “follows marriage counsellor Darcy (Barber), a total romantic who lives in a beautiful coastal Australian town and is fully entrenched in her tight-knit community. But Darcy is forced to face her own relationship demons when her husband leaves her for someone new – untangling 15 years’ worth of an intertwined life while continuing to share empathetic nods with her troubled clients.”